[agents] CFP: Agents Living in Augmented Worlds @ PAAMS 2016

[Alessandro Ricci]

CFP: ALAW @ PAAMS 2016 

1st International Workshop on Agents Living in Augmented Worlds - http://alaw2016.apice.unibo.it

held at the 14th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS)

University of Sevilla - Sevilla (Spain) | 1st-3rd June, 2016 

== Important Dates ==

* Paper submission deadline: 25th January, 2016 (hard deadline)
* Notification of acceptance: 22nd February, 2016
* Camera-Ready papers due: 7th March, 2016
* Workshop: 1st-3rd June, 2016

== Description ==

The scale of future augmented worlds can range from small environments and individual augmented artifacts, up to large augmented realities and aggregates, including buildings, quartiers, cities. Intelligent agents and related technologies represent a natural way to model the citizens living on the digital side of these augmented worlds, being them e.g. either the soul of smart/augmented objects, or the smart assistants of human users inhabiting these worlds, or rather distributed and situated teams helping human coordination and cooperation.  Augmented/mixed reality frameworks as well as pervasive computing/IoT  represent the  enabling technologies on top of which the agent-oriented layers are based.

The objective of the workshop is to be an inter-disciplinary forum where to discuss any aspect that concerns agent-based augmented worlds, from their conceptual and theoretical foundations, to their design and engineering, as well as their applications to specific domains.  

== Topics ==

The partial list of coarse-grained topics of interest for the workshop includes:

* models and theories of agency and MAS living in/shaping augmented worlds
* methodologies for designing agent systems living in/shaping augmented worlds
* interaction, coordination, cooperation models inside augmented worlds
* agent-based platforms and technologies for developing augmented worlds
* human augmentation by means of agents and multi-agent systems in augmented worlds
* real-world applications designed as agent-based augmented worlds

== Contributions ==

The workshop welcomes any research contribution which would allow to solicit the discussion and brainstorming about any relevant aspect related to agents living in an augmented worlds, either theoretical/conceptual and practical. A main objective of the meeting is booting a community on these issues.
 
A further important objective of the meeting is to set up a first publication, providing an overview about the state-of-the-art, starting from the research works/visions and discussion presented during the workshop. This publication can be either a book or a special issue on some reference journal (e.g. Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing).

== Submission ==

Papers must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Template, with a maximum length of 12 pages in length, including figures and references. All proposed papers must be submitted in electronic form (PDF format) using directly the PAAMS Paper Submission Page at http://www.paams.net/submission.

== Organizers and PC Chairs ==

* Cristiano Castelfranchi, ISTC-CNR Roma
* Gregory O'Hare, UCD Dublin
* Alessandro Ricci, University of Bologna
* Luca Tummolini,  ISTC-CNR Roma